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After the meeting ended, his assistant came over and asked, "Xiao Zong, isn't it going to increase your workload if they decide things on their own, and you still have to compile the final results?"
Xiao Minxing was not as cold towards his assistant; he softened his tone and said, "It will be like that at first, but over time, once they get used to handling these matters, this situation won't occur anymore. We just need to get through the initial phase."
The assistant still seemed a bit uneasy: "What if someone can't handle it?"
Xiao Minxing glanced at his desk and replied, "Then we’ll hire someone who can handle it."
After a pause, he added, "Oh, by the way, you can submit a recruitment request to the talent market. Just hire those fresh graduates from animation programs; no experience is necessary."
"How many?" the assistant asked.
Xiao Minxing shifted his gaze to me.
I was completely confused, not knowing what he was planning or why he was looking at me. He didn’t really ask me anything but said, "Let's start with ten."
"What positions will they have when they come in, and where will they work?"
I truly admired this assistant for being so persistent with his questions. Even Xiao Minxing couldn't take it anymore and directly said, "Go call HR."
I didn’t hear what he discussed with HR because he took the person out to talk, and right after that was another high-level company meeting.
I waited in his office for quite a while without seeing him return. By noon, I decided to take the initiative and went out to buy lunch.
When I returned, everyone had just finished work, so those coming out of the office were walking against me. They deliberately avoided looking at me but still noticed that some were sneaking glances my way.
Xiao Minxing was still in his office. He wasn’t sitting behind his desk but was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, staring outside with an unknown expression on his face.
"Let's eat." I was genuinely afraid of him now, not just that he might choke me, but also that he would get angry at the slightest disagreement.
He turned to look at me, the coldness around him had subsided, his gaze lowered, and he didn't say anything as he sat down first and opened his lunch box.
I sat down beside him, and just as I put a bite of food in my mouth, I heard him softly ask, "You can come to me directly if you need something; there's no need to look for Lu Yi Heng."
The food almost choked me, and I coughed for a long time before catching my breath.
When I looked at Xiao Minxing again, he had already eaten more than half of his meal and provocatively glanced at me.
The meaning behind his words was not about looking for someone else; it was a deliberate prank. He wanted to see me embarrassed in front of him and punish me for acting without his consent.
Thinking about it made me even angrier, so I simply put down my chopsticks and said, "If I look for you, will you actually tell me?"
"No." He replied without a second thought, not even lifting his eyelids as he continued eating.
"Then what's the point of asking you?" The more I spoke, the angrier I became, or rather, the more I looked at his expression, the angrier I felt.
Xiao Minxing finally stopped what he was doing. He casually took two paper towels, wiped his hands while asking, "Did you find it useful to ask him? Did he tell you anything?"
"No."
That answer was truly embarrassing to admit. After all, I had gone to see him twice with no results; just saying it out loud would give him something to laugh about.
Especially now that I saw how he looked—after wiping his hands, he took another paper towel and slowly cleaned the corners of his mouth.
His movements were casual, and with a sideways glance at me, hearing my answer made him smirk even more. His eyes curved with amusement as he reached out with the remaining paper towel to wipe away some sauce from the corner of my lips.
"That's it, calm down. You're not a child anymore."
After saying this, he stood up and walked outside.
I hurriedly stood up and asked him, "Where are you going?"
He glanced at the table and said, "I don't want to see you eating, so I'm going to find a place to hang out for a while."
I really wanted to kick him a couple of times and punch him to vent my frustration, but I knew that if I acted out, I would only end up worse off. So I started repeating in my mind, "He is sick, he is sick..."
When Xiao Minxing returned, it was already afternoon working hours.
He had his own things to attend to, and since I had nothing to do, I sat there doodling on some paper out of boredom.
It seemed like both of us were busy, but in reality, one was being efficient while the other was just passing time. In fact, by now I was starting to doubt the purpose of my being here.
At least until now, I had seen him working normally, yet I still considered him a patient. What kind of normal person would do something like this?
However, even though my hands were drawing on the paper, my mind was occupied with other questions.
How did Xiao Minxing find out so quickly that I went to see Lu Yiheng? Who told him?
Of course, the first person that came to mind was Lu Yiheng himself. After all, they were friends, and I was practically his enemy; it would be completely normal for him to say something. But thinking back on how Lu Yiheng acted at that moment, it didn't seem like he would deliberately share those details.
But if it wasn't him, then who could it be?
Lu Yishan didn't know that I had gone to see her brother, so there was no second person who could know.
After circling back, I couldn't help but think of what Xiao Minxing had said about stalking.
Yes, even though we had gotten along well for a while and he hadn't brought it up again, the memory of that trip to Yunnan was still fresh. Since he could stalk me back then, he could certainly do it now, right?
Thinking about this made a fire ignite in my heart, and I couldn't help but glance over at him.
Just then, he also looked up at me. Our eyes met, and in that moment of collision, I clearly saw a hint of deep affection in Xiao Minxing's eyes.
It felt as if I had found a long-awaited treasure after traversing mountains and rivers, or as if I had reunited with a lover after a long separation. Although it was fleeting, that feeling of surprise, possession, and intensity was hard to erase.
I even felt a bit dazed, and suddenly a thought popped into my mind.
He wouldn't still remember me from back then, would he?
Once this thought took hold, it tightly gripped my mind like a massive net, slowly pulling me into the depths of my memories.
Logically speaking, we had been apart since we were around ten years old. Xiao Minxing was slightly older than me; if I could remember him, he would surely remember me too.
The difference was that I had later returned to Haicheng to inquire about him, which is how I saw what he looked like as an adult. When I first saw him at that time, I didn't even dare to acknowledge him. I could never have imagined that the boy from back then would grow up to look like this.
As for myself, I had changed significantly over the years; I was almost unrecognizable compared to my childhood self. Even if he did remember me, he wouldn't think we were the same person. And even if he did think of it, after all these years apart and having lived in different environments with different educations, he wouldn't be looking for that little girl anymore, would he?
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